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Although display devices have been used for decades, they have functioned without taking into account the illumination of their environment. The authors present the concept of a Lighting Sensitive Display (LSD) a display that measures the incident illumination and modifies its content accordingly. Ideal LSD would be able to measure
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Numerous energy harvesting wireless devices that will serve as building blocks for the Internet of Things (IoT) are currently under development. However, there is still only limited understanding of the properties of various energy sources and their impact on energy harvesting adaptive algorithms. Hence, the authors focus on characterizing the
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"The Blind Seer system (Oakland 2014) is an efficient and scalable DBMS that affords both client query privacy and server data protection. It also provides the ability to enforce authorization policies on the system, restricting client's queries while maintaining the privacy of both query and policy. Blind Seer supports a
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Support for fine-grained data management has all but disappeared from modern operating systems such as Android and iOS. Instead, the people must rely on each individual application to manage their data properly - e.g., to delete their emails, documents, and photos in full upon request; to not collect more data
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Understanding and optimizing multithreaded execution is a significant challenge. Numerous research and industrial tools debug parallel performance by combing through program source or thread traces for pathologies including communication overheads, data dependencies, and load imbalances. This paper takes a new approach: it ignores any underlying pathologies, and focuses instead on
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Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are a powerful platform for building high-speed network traffic processing applications using low-cost hardware. Existing systems tap the massively parallel architecture of GPUs to speed up certain computationally intensive tasks, such as cryptographic operations and pattern matching. However, they still suffer from significant overheads due to
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Core and aggregation optical networks are remarkably static, despite the emerging dynamic capabilities of the individual optical devices. This stems from the inability to address optical impairments in real-time. As a result, tasks such as adding and removing wavelengths take a substantial amount of time, and therefore, optical networks are
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Recent works have shown promise in using micro-architectural execution patterns to detect malware programs. These detectors belong to a class of detectors known as signature based detectors as they catch malware by comparing a program's execution pattern (signature) to execution patterns of known malware programs. In this paper, the authors
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When operating systems and hardware manage power and energy, they must be conservative in order to deliver requested resources while maintaining an expected rate of system throughput. Application-level energy management is more flexible, because applications can choose to request fewer resources or expect less performance, effectively trading accuracy or runtime
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